Tempo

Tempo , 8 days ago

They're Ryzen processors with "AI" accelerators, so an LLM can definitely run on hardware on one of those. Other options are available, like lower powered ARM chipsets (RK3588-based boards) with accelerators that might have half the performance but are far cheaper to run, should be enough for a basic LLM.

Tempo , 22 days ago

The eSafety commission argued that "well everyone just uses VPNs anyway so it won't matter"

Tempo , 28 days ago

Eh, have you seen some of the bots that just repost reddit content verbatim? Some trash slips through the cracks.

Tempo , 1 month ago

We've got DVDFab bots here on Lemmy now?

Tempo , 2 months ago

You're kissing girls, aren't you?

Tempo , 2 months ago

He joined Universodon during one of the Twitter exoduses a couple years back. Elvira also joined Universodon without knowing it was a space themed instance. Not sure if she's still there.

Tempo , 2 months ago

What's your use case? Likeminded techie friends? Family members?

Signal works well as an alternative to the likes of Telegram and WhatsApp, even if it still requires a phone number and is centralised. Far easier to explain to the family instead of "oh well you can sign up on this website or this website or that website".

Granted, if you want to host a small Matrix server just for the family, then go for it.

Tempo , 2 months ago

I used a Hisense A5 Pro CC phone for a few months as my daily driver. For books, colour eink is okay at best but yeah, contrast sucks. It pretty much always will with the extra layers of filtering needed for each colour.

Outside of static pages of text and images, you pretty much need to drop colour depth to pretty garish levels for a decently responsive user experience. It's a nice idea but really isn't very good in practice.

Tempo , 2 months ago

Debian has official support for RISC V boards, but they don't have officially available images for those boards (at least not the Mars).

Tempo , 3 months ago

Mastodon and Misskey are both getting a little overstuffed. Neither are particularly nimble, with Masto moving to further "professionalise" itself and Misskey (forks included) having way too much stuff on offer in terms of features.

Regarding clients, Kaiteki seems to be the best Misskey client I've found on mobile. The native PWA was an absolute pain the last time I used Misskey. The anime issue with it probably stems from it's Japanese origin and most big instances seen as refuges for artists banned off Twitter.

I've personally switched to GoToSocial, which seems to fill all the Mastodon-shaped holes without gulping down resources.

Tempo , 3 months ago

There's no money in privacy.

Harvesting and selling personal information is practically a continual source of funds with little to no cost. Why spend time and money developing a product with all the data harvesting elements stripped out to appeals to maybe 5-10% of the market?

Tempo , 3 months ago

I second this.

Had to fix up mum's laptop and she wanted Windows 10 with all the Microsoft Office gubbins (she had to settle for Libreoffice). Didn't want a word of anything Linux because "it might not work with any of my stuff". I don't know of a single thing she does outside of web browsing and typing up word documents.

You just can't change some people.

Tempo , 3 months ago

Probably, she uses Windows 10 at work.